After nearly three years of construction, this weekend the Peabody Essex Museum debuts its new $125 million wing. The Salem institution offers free admission on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and…Continue Reading →
The Somerville Toy Camera Fest showcases photography at its most beautifully basic—photos made with simple (often plastic) cameras with little (if any) controls or automation. Some are pinhole cameras—a container…Continue Reading →
The Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race is “a competitive parade of the arts and science. Otherwise known as the triathlon of the art world,” Bianca Mauro, one of the event’s producers,…Continue Reading →
In June 2018, an 800-pound, 4-foot-high, 10-foot-long aluminum spoon appeared in front of the headquarters of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connectut, to protest one of the companies seen…Continue Reading →
The mirrored door of the white box opens and you enter into Yayoi Kusama’s universe. Polka dotted tentacles, lit from within with changing rainbow hues, curl down from the shiny…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. On a broiling…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. Crossing Water, from…Continue Reading →
Mural at It’s Raining Pets, a dog grooming business in Salem, Massachusetts, Sept. 7, 2019. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…Continue Reading →
Since the mid 1980s, New York photographer Phyllis Galembo has documented the masquerade traditions of festivals and carnivals in Africa and the Americas. Her new book “Mexico Masks | Rituals” (Radius…Continue Reading →
In front of the Dog Chapel is a sign reading: “Welcome/All Creeds/All Breeds/No Dogmas/Allowed.” A row of four sculptures of dogs of stand before the sign (and a cat sculpture…Continue Reading →